Required Reading AP English 1984 – George Orwell As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton (film) The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams (film) Hamlet – William Shakespeare The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde (film) The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (film) Slaughter-house Five – Kurt Vonnegut Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson (film) Their Eyes were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston British Literature Elective Beowulf – Burton Raphael The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad Lord of the Flies – William Golding Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy Classical Literature and Modern Man Elective The Odyssey – Homer Til We Have Faces – C. S. Lewis
LA Live Elective Fallen Angels – Walter Dean Myers Friday Night Lights – H. G. Bissinger Shakespeare Elective King Lear Macbeth A Midsummer’s Night Dream Twelfth Night Recommended Reading – Fiction Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton Ahab’s Wife – Sena Jeter Naslund The Alchemist-Paulo Coelho All the Pretty Horses-Cormac McCarthy Animal Farm – George Orwell Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy Atonement – Ian McEwan The Awakening – Kate Chopin Billy Budd – Herman Melville The Bonesetter’s Daughter – Amy Tan Brave New World – Aldous Huxley Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen East of Eden – John Steinbeck Far from the Maddding Crowd – Thomas Hardy Gap Creek -Robert Morgan Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseinii Light in August – William Faulkner Long Day’s Journey into Night – Eugene O’Neill Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka Middlemarch – George Eliot One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ordinary People – Judith Guest Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce The Road- Cormac McCarthy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway We Were the Mulvaneys – Joyce Carol Oates Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys A Yellow Raft in Blue Water-Michael Dorrie Recommended Reading – Non-Fiction Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt Devil in the White City- Erik Larson Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubne It’s Not About the Bike- Lance Armstrong A Long Way Gone – Ishmael Beah
High-Interest Reading
Book of Lost Things- John Connolly
Twelve-year-old David's grief over his mother's death at the start of World War II intensifies with his father's remarriage and the impending birth of a sibling, so when his books begin talking to him, tempting him to enter a portal into a magical world, he decides to take the risk.
Inexcusable- Chris Lynch
High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.
Like Water for Chocolate- Laura Esquivel
A romantic and poignant tale of love and family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico.
The Pact- Jodi Picoult
The Hartes and the Golds, long-time neighbors and friends, are not surprised when their children Chris and Emily fall in love, but the bond between the families is placed under an enormous strain when Emily is killed, leaving behind the question of whether her death was a suicide, or murder.
Time Traveler’s Wife- Audrey Niffenegger
Clare and Henry, deeply in love, try desperately to maintain normal lives even though he has been diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition in which his genetic clock periodically resets, pulling him through time to the past or future.
Three Cups of Tea-Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Greg Mortenson recounts the experiences he had while trying to help impoverished villages in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya build schools for their children.
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lenox- Maggie O'Farrell
Iris Lockhart is shocked when she receives a phone call informing her that her great-aunt Esme, whom Iris never knew about, is being released from the mental hospital where she has spent the last sixty-one years, and wonders what long-buried family secrets the woman will bring with her when Iris takes her in.
White Oleander – Janet Fitch
Astrid, the only child of a single mother, struggles to find a place for herself in a world full of foster homes and impossible circumstances, after her mother is jailed for murder.
AP English
1984 – George Orwell
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton (film)
The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams (film)
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde (film)
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (film)
Slaughter-house Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson (film)
Their Eyes were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
British Literature Elective
Beowulf – Burton Raphael
The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Classical Literature and Modern Man Elective
The Odyssey – Homer
Til We Have Faces – C. S. Lewis
LA Live Elective
Fallen Angels – Walter Dean Myers
Friday Night Lights – H. G. Bissinger
Shakespeare Elective
King Lear
Macbeth
A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Twelfth Night
Recommended Reading – Fiction
Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
Ahab’s Wife – Sena Jeter Naslund
The Alchemist-Paulo Coelho
All the Pretty Horses-Cormac McCarthy
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
Billy Budd – Herman Melville
The Bonesetter’s Daughter – Amy Tan
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Far from the Maddding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Gap Creek - Robert Morgan
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseinii
Light in August – William Faulkner
Long Day’s Journey into Night – Eugene O’Neill
Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
Middlemarch – George Eliot
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People – Judith Guest
Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
The Road- Cormac McCarthy
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
We Were the Mulvaneys – Joyce Carol Oates
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water-Michael Dorrie
Recommended Reading – Non-Fiction
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
Devil in the White City- Erik Larson
Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubne
It’s Not About the Bike- Lance Armstrong
A Long Way Gone – Ishmael Beah
High-Interest Reading